RR Auction: Literary Rarities

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ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
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Henry James4042 - Henry James
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ALS, eight pages on a pair of two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, Reform Club letterhead, April 29, 1903. Letter to “Beloved Bill,” his nephew William Jame
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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O. Henry4043 - O. Henry
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Uncommon ALS, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.25 x 8.25, June 24, no year. Letter to Mr. Gallup, in full: “I do not think that there is a photo
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Jack London4044 - Jack London
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ALS, one page, 8.5 x 11, no date but postmarked September 28, 1903, with London’s personal ink stamp. Letter to C. C. Buel, the editor of The Century
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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John Muir4045 - John Muir
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ALS, one page, 8.25 x 12.25, April 12, 1906. Written from Adamana, Arizona, a letter to Mr. Wells, in full: “I have just returned from a long visit to
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Edgar Rice Burroughs4046 - Edgar Rice Burroughs
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DS, two pages, 8.5 x 13, October 1, 1915. Agreement between Edgar Rice Burroughs and A. C. McClurg & Company to publish The Beasts of Tarzan in ...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Edgar Rice Burroughs4047 - Edgar Rice Burroughs
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ALS, one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, March 7, 1938. Letter to actress Maureen O’Sullivan, in full: “I’d certainly like to have some autograph
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Thomas Wolfe4048 - Thomas Wolfe
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Influential American writer (1900–1938) known for his poetic autobiographical fiction, best remembered for the 1929 novel Look Homeward, Angel. TLS si
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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F. Scott Fitzgerald4049 - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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TLS, two pages, 8.5 x 11, February 8, 1934. Letter to Mrs. Arthur J. Harris. In full: “Far from being one who rushes in you are an angel to write me s
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Estimate : 15,000.00 - 20,000.00
 
 
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F. Scott Fitzgerald4050 - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Signed book: This Side of Paradise. Later printing. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. Hardcover, 5.25 x 7.75, 305 pages. Signed and inscribed o...
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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William Faulkner4051 - William Faulkner
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Signed book: As I Lay Dying. First edition, first printing (bearing the misaligned “I” on page 11, and a price of $2.50 on the dust jacket). NY: Jonat
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Estimate : 10,000.00 - 15,000.00
 
 
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Margaret Mitchell4052 - Margaret Mitchell
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Signed book: Gone with the Wind. First edition, first printing. NY: The Macmillan Company, 1936. Rebound hardcover, 6.25 x 9, 1037 pages. Signed on th
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Estimate : 3,500.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Margaret Mitchell4053 - Margaret Mitchell
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TLS signed in pencil, “Peggy,” five pages, 7 x 11, January 5, 1932. Letter to her mother-in-law, Mrs. Marsh, in part: “One of my good resolutions this
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Margaret Mitchell4054 - Margaret Mitchell
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TLS signed “Margaret Mitchell Marsh,” two pages, 7 x 10.75, personal letterhead, February 19, 1940. Letter to Robert Saltmarsh, a New Bedford, Massach
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Richard Wright4055 - Richard Wright
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Influential African-American author (1909–1960) whose work often addressed race relations in the United States. Signed book: Native Son. Second issue.
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Ernest Hemingway4056 - Ernest Hemingway
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Signed book: A Farewell to Arms. First edition, limited issue, numbered 216/510. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Hardcover bound in paper and...
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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Ernest Hemingway4057 - Ernest Hemingway
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Signed book: A Bibliography of the Works of Ernest Hemingway by Louis Henry Cohn. First edition, limited issue, numbered 321/500. NY: Random House, 19
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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Ernest Hemingway4058 - Ernest Hemingway
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Signed book: For Whom the Bells Tolls. First edition, later printing. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.5, 47...
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Ernest Hemingway4059 - Ernest Hemingway
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Exceptional vintage matte-finish 4 x 6 photo of the author posing next to a huge marlin, signed and inscribed in blue ballpoint to famed restaurateur
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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Ernest Hemingway4060 - Ernest Hemingway
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The Old Man and the Sea. First edition, first printing (with “A” and Scribner’s seal on copyright page); in original dust jacket (with $3.00 price int
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Ernest Hemingway4061 - Ernest Hemingway
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TLS signed “Yours, Ernest,” one onionskin page both sides, 8.5 x 11, Finca Vigia letterhead, no date but postmarked May 21, 1953. Letter to Charles Po
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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